AA>A little dated (3 years ago), but still interesting:

AA>Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power.
AA>http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html


AA>This one is from this year:

AA>What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data?
AA>Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb.
AA>Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly
AA>that.
AA>http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light
AA>b.html

August,

Long ago, at a local Amateur Radio meeting I heard some folks talk about
one of them driving their car up a hill and parking it so the front of
the car was faceing the streets down below where another 'Ham' lived.

The Ham up the hill had connected a Microphone, that used a Carbon
Element, to the cars headlights and spoke into the mike with the
headlights turned on.

The Ham that lived down below the hill used a telescope that had a
photo-cell attached to the eyepiece, and the photo-cell was connected to
a audio amplifiers audio input jack, and He was able to hear what was
spoken by the guy up on the hill on a loudspeaker connected to the
audio amplifier.

I believe the experiment took place a little after World War 2 when
there was a lot of U.S. Military Surplus electronic gear available.


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